How spring has blossomed in literature

Mistaken expectations, foolish illusions, dangerous liaisons … while spring is always keenly awaited in literature, its onset so often signifies trouble

Bawdy, boozy, brainy Latin poems by minstrels, rebel monks and scholars, best known as the lyrics to Carl Orff’s cantata; the first sequence evokes nature in spring, when “Flora reigns” and from the forest “the chorus of maidens / already promises a thousand joys. Ah!” Dream on, student poet.

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